Maximoff' "Constructive Anarchism"
Dec 6 2007 14:59
Does anyone know of a free on-line edition of Maximoff's "Constructive Anarchism"?
Dec 6 2007 16:13
#2
Can anyone get me a hard copy of it? I'll scan it and maybe put it in the libcom library.
pm me if you can send me a copy.
Dec 6 2007 16:19
#3
£2 to AK and its yours: http://www.akuk.com
Dec 6 2007 16:20
#4
I can make a photocopy and mail it to you.
Dec 7 2007 04:42
#5
Ok, there's no need for me to reproductive this portion of "Constructive Anarchism"
Programme of anarcho-syndicalism
First published in Russian in 1927 by Golos Truzhenika Group in the U.S.A. as "Programme of Revolutionary Syndicalism" Translated into English by Ada Seigel Appeared in the book "Constructive Anarchism" published by the "Maximoff Memorial Publishing Committee", Chicago, 1952.
http://www.fondation-besnard.org/article.php3?id_article=113
The portion of "Constructive Anarchism" that does not appear on-line is Maximoff's reply to the "Organizational Platform". His criticisms are basically that anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists had been talking about a "constructive" anarchism decades before "The Platform" was written. By "constructive", Maximoff is talking about the composition and nature of the post-revolutionary society.
Another pamphlet of a similar title was published some years ago by the Australian Monty Miller Press. My old friend Kevin Doyle of the WSM wrote a review of this pamphlet which appeared in the WSM's "Red & Black Review #3" (http://www.wsm.ie/story/1775). In addition to reprinting "The Platform", this pamphlet contains many of the published criticisms by anarchists of the day of "The Platform".
Dec 7 2007 14:06
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syndicalist wrote:
Another pamphlet of a similar title was published some years ago by the Australian Monty Miller Press. My old friend Kevin Doyle of the WSM wrote a review of this pamphlet which appeared in the WSM's "Red & Black Review #3" (http://www.wsm.ie/story/1775). In addition to reprinting "The Platform", this pamphlet contains many of the published criticisms by anarchists of the day of "The Platform".
That review didn't have much good to say about Maximov's piece:
Quote:
Maximoff, another Russian exile and author of the longest (and most long-winded) reply to the Platform (included in this Monty Miller edition), was careful to use words such as 'childish' and 'primitive' in his descriptions of the arguments made by the Platformists. In doing this he hardly served his cause well, and his contribution, to my mind, is by far the weakest, and of little value even now.
Is it really that bad, or is the reviewer just offended on behalf of the platformists?
Dec 7 2007 17:43
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Felix Frost wrote:
Is it really that bad, or is the reviewer just offended on behalf of the platformists?
Six of one half a dozen of the other?
Dec 8 2007 15:32
#8
My posting of Kevin's review is simply to provide as many sources as are out there.
While Kevin is a friend and comrade, I may not always agree with his point of view.
The Monty Miller pamphlet is critical of "The Platform". Kevin wrote his opinion from a platformist perspective (vantage point 1998).
Ah fuck, you just reminded me that I was supposed to mail a hard copy of it to the Makhno Archives like a year ago (Nestor McNab was gonna scan up Maximoff's lengthy anarcho-syndicalist critique of the Dielo Truda 'platform' document). As far as I know there is no online version... yet.